The Conspiracy of Art
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Jackson Pollock: Demystifying America's Most Influential Painter
Understanding the painting of Jackson Pollock, an artist who shook the art world and came to symbolize the American spirit and even freedom itself.
Jackson Pollock is a difficult artist for many to appreciate. Understanding his influences & artistic process is key to understanding and enjoyment. Pollock was an artist fascinated with myth, and poetically, became a myth himself.
In his seminal essay, The American Action Painters, art critic Harold Rosenberg described the abstract expressionist as a “vanguard painter [who] took to the white expanse of the canvas as Melville’s Ishmael took to the sea.” In the public consciousness, abstract expressionism came to represent pure possibility. And no one benefited more from this myth-making than Jackson Pollock. Who cares if Rosenberg didn't have Pollock in mind when he wrote American Action Painters, or that Rosenberg disliked the mass media culture surrounding Pollock. Rosenberg gave the abstract expressionist a soul. He defined a will to power. Jackson Pollock's painting was now a heroic act.
References & Credits:
New Art City by Jed Perl
The Free World by Louis Menand
MOMA.org
New Yorker
Alliedworks.com
Wikipedia
Thomas Griesel
Music:
Singing Bowl Meditation: Humans Win
Classical Noble Strings: Bobby Cole
Film Theme: Spencer Rabin
Miles to Go: Gary Franks
Like Miles: Unknown Author
Jazz: Paul Whittle
Ambient Space Meditation: Malkovich Studio
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How to Look at a Mark Rothko Painting
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What do Rothko’s paintings mean? Where did they come from? Mark Rothko wanted to make art that could stir the most basic human emotions. He spent his entire career exploring the primal language of abstract painting in pursuit of a spiritual, near-religious experience. He accomplished what few artists have ever done, he made something the world has never seen before. Rothko believed art was a sa...
The Myth of Picasso
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There was no artist bigger than Pablo Picasso for much of the 20th century. He radiated the mythic aura of creative genius, becoming the richest and arguably most influential artist in modern times - achieving fame, glory, and infamy. His public persona is now inseparable from his art. References: Art Forum The New York Times The New Yorker “The Success and Failure of Picasso” by John Berger “P...
The World of Jean-Michel Basquiat
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A look at the life, work, controversies, and iconic mystique of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist who conquered the art world, defined a generation of 1980's expressionist painting, and became a celebrity doing it. Basquiat was an artist with preternatural talent who created art inspired by Jazz, Beat poets, Cy Twombly, Leonardo da Vinci, graffiti, hip-hop, and nearly everything else under the su...
Salvador Dali's Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
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Salvador Dali called himself the first painter of the atomic age. In Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), Dali explores his obsession with nuclear science, mysticism, and sacred geometry of the Renaissance. Dali created his cross using a four dimension cube, called a hypercube or tesseract. Dali claimed his surrealism period was merely a stepping stone, and that in his nuclear phase, he would be ab...
Duchamp's Fountain: How a Urinal Became the Most Influential Artwork of the 20th Century
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The story of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain. A signed urinal that changed art forever. Duchamp today is known as the inventor of the readymade and conceptual art, but in 1917, his ideas were just too radical for much of the world to stomach. Marcel Duchamp’s attitude towards art was born out of a need for total freedom. Not just artistic freedom, but freedom of thought. Freedom of ideas. Freedom fro...
Andy Warhol's Nixon Poster: “Vote McGovern”
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Andy Warhol was not known for being political. His brief foray into American politics may have cost him. The story of Warhol's political poster in support of the 1972 Democratic nominee for President, George McGovern. Image Credits & Resources: The Andy Warhol Diaries Library of Congress The Andy Warhol Museum Museum of Modern Art CBS News PBS News Surfline.com Newsweek Music: Habanera from Biz...
Gold Buckle of Sutton Hoo (A Masterpiece of Medieval Art) | 4k
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A quick breakdown of the 7th century Anglo Saxon relic. The gold buckle found at Sutton Hoo is one of the great treasures of early medieval Europe. The buckle was found among a trove of Anglo Saxon treasures buried in a royal grave in Suffolk, England in 1939.
Andy Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe: The Sacred & the Profane
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Analysis of Warhol's mystifying piece of pop iconography. Andy Warhol's Byzantine Catholic upbringing gave him an early education in art. In 1962, he made Gold Marilyn Monroe, an icon of 20th century pop culture. There are many sides to Warhol. He was a commercial artist, an experimental artist and filmmaker, a an openly gay man, a socialite, and a devout Catholic. His art reflects all these fa...
Anglo Saxon Helmet of Sutton Hoo | 4k (Condensed Version)
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The discovery at Sutton Hoo unlocked the darkest medieval age in Europe. The 1400 year old helmet was discovered in 1939 by Basil Brown on the estate of Edith Pretty in Suffolk, England. The helmet was buried in a vast Anglo Saxon grave from the 7th century. This art history video discusses the impact the Sutton Hoo discovery had on our understanding of Anglo Saxon culture and provides a descri...
The Death of Marat: The Propaganda of Jacques-Louis David | French Revolution
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Jacques-Louis David was a court painter turned radical revolutionary. David used his artistic powers in the name of terror and revolution. Jacques-Louis David was the leading painter in France working in the neoclassical style. His paintings would become emblems of the French Revolution, representing both the high ideals and the carnage. "The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat)" is painting made ...
How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock to Fight the Cold War
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Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists made New York City the center of the art world after World War II. The CIA made them weapons of the Cold War. This video explores the ideas that animated post-war American abstract painting and how these ideas were exploited by the CIA to combat Soviet propaganda. References: Art Forum: "ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, WEAPON OF THE COLD WAR" by Eva Cockc...

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  • @kingdm8315
    @kingdm8315 День тому

    Crazy how in an attempt for artists to subvert the American system they were simply incorporated into it.

  • @christfree537
    @christfree537 2 дні тому

    Sad that great minds are often ridiculed for being "eccentric", there is a reason their brains work that way, we need to keep or keep quiet and learn something.

  • @indigobliss108
    @indigobliss108 6 днів тому

    This led directly to lsd , the 60s , mk ultra and psychedelics. 🍄‍🟫🐇 OM

  • @RobCoghanable
    @RobCoghanable 6 днів тому

    Matisse and Picasso were frenemies

  • @libraonthecusp6821
    @libraonthecusp6821 10 днів тому

    Looks like he had a seriously Traumatic childhood, 😢sometimes ignorance is ‘Bliss’ his stutter, body language that says’ I know I shouldn’t be here’ Peace be upon you brother INSHALLAH 🙏🏽 Palestine would of broken him i bet. Looks like J z little brother x

  • @kindrespirit
    @kindrespirit 13 днів тому

    Picasso viu no marxismo uma forma de transformar a arte em panfletos revolucionários, de surfar na onda da moda de sua época, que admirava a implantação do comunismo em todo o mundo.

  • @constancewalsh3646
    @constancewalsh3646 13 днів тому

    I cannot look at Rothco's paintings without weeping. The narration beautifully puts the ineffable quality of these works in words. Thank you so much.

    • @taterspater470
      @taterspater470 13 годин тому

      im sorry this is cack. his paintings are an interpretation of a lot of things in his life. i can look at a duck and paint it rothko style with yellow and blues. BUT ONLY I WILL GET IT. HE SAID SO HIMSELF. He has oversimplified his life experience with deep colours and rough edges, perhaps you should question why those colours are bunched up together and why all the squares and rectangles are lined up perfectly but blurred.

  • @switchmuso
    @switchmuso 13 днів тому

    WOW What a JOB!!! I'm linking this to all my thinking friends! A suggestion; Upload this with the title "How Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon changed ART HISTORY FOREVER!..."

  • @constancewalsh3646
    @constancewalsh3646 13 днів тому

    Connecting the dots between African art and Picasso's Demoiselles and cubist work is a huge Ah-ha! for me. How could I not have seen this earlier? The influence is so very clear. Understandable that he did not want to cop to this and undermine his mythological identity as an Original. Which he was anyway in western art and culture. Thanks for including John Berger, an undervalued beloved in my book. Excellent doc and narration. Thank You!

    • @agomodern
      @agomodern 4 дні тому

      Thousands of books written that point out the fact that modern art was hugely influenced by tribal art. Modern art is based on the ocult and mysticism. IE Satan.

  • @iainholmes2735
    @iainholmes2735 18 днів тому

    Really enjoyed your vid. An amazing artist. Cheers from London!

  • @stevenhanson6057
    @stevenhanson6057 20 днів тому

    “Look. Somebody framed a drop cloth!”

  • @stevenhanson6057
    @stevenhanson6057 20 днів тому

    Total crap

  • @operaguy1
    @operaguy1 25 днів тому

    Great! Scribbling jack the dripper as the personification of American individualism. Sick. Individuals are not their "unchained id."

  • @michaellakey3565
    @michaellakey3565 Місяць тому

    Sign this napkin Mr P - make my life 🤑 lol

  • @mikloslegrady965
    @mikloslegrady965 Місяць тому

    Duchamp appropriated the urinal without crediting the original “creator”, his friend Elsa vov Freytag-Loringhoven , except for one letter to his sister. The incriminating evidence was later published by Duchamp’s biographer, Francis Naumann: “April II [1917] My dear Suzanne- impossible d’écrire. (in the Parisian French of 1917, this meant ‘nothing much to write about’, re Dr. Glynn Thompson.) - I heard from Crotti that you were working hard. Tell me what you are making and if it’s not too difficult to send. Perhaps, I could have a show of your work in the month of October or November-next-here. But tell me what you are making- Tell this detail to the family: The Independents have opened here with immense success. One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture it was not at all indecent-no reason for refusing it. The committee has decided to refuse to show this thing. I have handed in my resignation and it will be a bit of gossip of some value in New York- I would like to have a special exhibition of the people who were refused at the Independents-but that would be a redundancy! And the urinal would have been lonely- See you soon, Affect. Marcel." read more-->legrady.com/writing/history.html

  • @Lol-mi2bf
    @Lol-mi2bf Місяць тому

    No wonder his art sucked.

  • @hassanbelrhali908
    @hassanbelrhali908 Місяць тому

    Many many thanks for the clarity and inspirational comments.

  • @shawn1248
    @shawn1248 Місяць тому

    The american government and all its 3 letter agencies are influencing the world everyday. The corruption is massive. Far greater than anyone could ever imagine

  • @pyroteam1108
    @pyroteam1108 Місяць тому

    The most important thing in the ( Holland )

  • @jbenson7300
    @jbenson7300 Місяць тому

    Who’s here after 50 cent said Jay-Z look like basquiat

  • @greenghost2008
    @greenghost2008 Місяць тому

    I just think his paintings are neat. It isn't deeper than that.

  • @larschristensen9367
    @larschristensen9367 Місяць тому

    19:39 That fine painting was owned by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. Should probably have waited some more years before selling it!

  • @ThePlayingCard
    @ThePlayingCard Місяць тому

    Yarn Not Thread

  • @Vulgarandbored
    @Vulgarandbored Місяць тому

    This is the 5th Basquiat documentary ive seen today. Idk why i find him sooo interesting. I play guitar but this painters art world is awesome

  • @aldavis9696
    @aldavis9696 Місяць тому

    Beautiful... Simple complexity.

  • @aldavis9696
    @aldavis9696 Місяць тому

    A legend in his time... He still lives through the art he left us.

  • @nsinc965
    @nsinc965 Місяць тому

    Make more videos

  • @ronjohnson4566
    @ronjohnson4566 Місяць тому

    i would argue that Nude Descending the Staircase, and The Bride Striped Bare were the most influential.

  • @InkpadutaRoad
    @InkpadutaRoad Місяць тому

    That’s your big homie? 💀

  • @sandroabate
    @sandroabate Місяць тому

    This isn't art, it's pretentious garbage.

  • @sandroabate
    @sandroabate Місяць тому

    Pollock is utter crap. That shit was never art. It makes sense for it to be a CIA Psy-Op, because it’s awful.

  • @KevinGonzales-zv9xb
    @KevinGonzales-zv9xb 2 місяці тому

    It is a piece of sculpture!

  • @latawshamaulson3897
    @latawshamaulson3897 2 місяці тому

    Does anybody black no about. Him ..im so sick of white people reporting other peoples culture..just like im sick of looking st a white gay. Jesus..yeah that picture yall worship is of a gay white man. Info so good it cant be made up

  • @blessingekeomatv
    @blessingekeomatv 2 місяці тому

    He is inspiring

  • @milanapeacock6062
    @milanapeacock6062 2 місяці тому

    What an amazing channel! Please come back.

  • @MemeMan-ns3qw
    @MemeMan-ns3qw 2 місяці тому

    This is a great video, you deserve more views!!

  • @sverkerolausson2252
    @sverkerolausson2252 2 місяці тому

    I wonder if Mark Rothko paintings can be more difficult to understand (or be drawn to) if you have Aphantasia?

  • @doghouse100148
    @doghouse100148 2 місяці тому

    The important thing is that anything can be art . if there’s a valid reason or thought behind its selection . But as there were only a limited number of readymade objects in Duchamp’s studio , there has to be some reasoning behind their choice. Otherwise he is not following his own reasoning . That’s the reasoning offered , in the Blind Man, 😊for the Fountain. As a readymade object. And by that reasoning all thought that a company’s an object has a valid point to be regarded as Art.

  • @twrourke6557
    @twrourke6557 2 місяці тому

    Windows.

  • @Bloomythegoat
    @Bloomythegoat 2 місяці тому

    His paintings suck to be honest

  • @e8blue
    @e8blue 2 місяці тому

    Not an artist, not art. Without CIA, he would be nobody. 😊

  • @Mitchmyoutube
    @Mitchmyoutube 2 місяці тому

    So modern art is a phyop. And it’s turned into the monstrosity it is today

  • @sythe77
    @sythe77 2 місяці тому

    Don't...

  • @MrOVR100
    @MrOVR100 2 місяці тому

    I'll never forget my art teacher Stacey one of the best now her teachings help me navigate throug my world

  • @033jwz
    @033jwz 2 місяці тому

    At least a missed chance, otherwise a predictably lazy continuation of sexism, to not go into, or even mention that "Duchamp's" Fountain was in 1981 discovered not to actually have been made by Duchamp, but by Else von Freytag-Loringhoven. She sent the work to the original exhibit under a male alias. Duchamp’s acceptance of the untruthful ownership, and the lukewarm reaction of the artworld after the revelation serves as a striking illustration of the male-centric art-world, its disregard of female artists and its readiness to deify false male prophets. It makes one wonder whether Fountain would have become one of the most influential works of the 20th century if its real maker would have been known (to be female) from the start.

  • @samsung8310
    @samsung8310 2 місяці тому

    I experienced something similar when I saw a Frida Kahlo for the first time at SFMOMA it was a self portrait, there was so much emotion coming from the painting, It was like she was alive in the painting, I could sense the sadness and pain in the painting so much palpable emotion from a simple self portrait, you can’t experience that from looking at pictures, her paintings must be seen in person.

  • @russelmurray9268
    @russelmurray9268 2 місяці тому

    There's no volume

  • @0patience4flz
    @0patience4flz 3 місяці тому

    Yay Robert Maplethorpe

  • @axleochidae2853
    @axleochidae2853 3 місяці тому

    Bad painter, intriguing life story. The poor guy couldn’t paint his ass. This art historical overreach is yet another symbol of our vacuous hollow society. The apparent love of all these shite painters is because of the black hole of ugliness that exists in so many critics/ influencers. If you want to see what the deepest painting is all about- look at John Sargent, Francis Bacon, Vuillard, Bellows etc.

  • @lemuelpadio1510
    @lemuelpadio1510 3 місяці тому

    I have seen a Rothko 3 years ago and I was moved to tears.